The Infernal

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Jay Garner wore khakis and open-collared shirts in Iraq, while L. Paul Bremer was known for his combat boots and tailored suits; Alberto Gonzales called himself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror; Mark Zuckerberg fenced; Nathan Myhrvold dreamt of helium balloons over the North Pole; and Charles Graner was accused of putting a razor blade in the food of an inmate (though the alleged incident took place in the United States, not Iraq, and in any case, apart from this note, his name goes unmentioned here …).

Real-world people and events appear in The Infernal, but — to use the legal phrase, which also happens to be true — this is a work of fiction, and all incidents and characters are either fictional or used fictitiously. Where characters and events can be matched in one way or another to real-world counterparts, they have been deformed, reimagined, made into weird composite animals, and/or rendered insane, with invented conversations, thoughts, feelings, backstories, geographies, gestures, verbal tics, sunsets, and blood ties sprayed everywhere, helter-skelter.

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